Abstract Overcrowding in Emergency Departments is one of the most important issues facing nationwide. The aim of the paper is to examine how to improve patients flow through optimization of hospital beds. To improve discharging processes

AbstractThe principal role for focused cardiac ultrasound (FCU) is the time-sensitive assessment of the symptomatic patient in the Emergency Department. This evaluation primarily includes the assessment for the presence of pericardial effusion and the evaluation of relative chamber size, global cardiac function, and patient volume status. Intravascular volume status may be

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We evaluated the economic, social and functional impact derived from the introduction of protocols for managing diagnosis of mild head trauma in the short stay unit (OBI) of the first level ED (DEA di 2° liv) of our hospital, which annually receives about 1650 patients with head injury (excluding multiple traumas).In addition to an economic saving of approximately 200,000 in two years, we have analyzed savings in the neurosurgery